The dashboard is a great place to see all the activity inside your bot. It is dynamic and updates instantaneously as positions change in your bot. The bot log provides insight into what automations are running, what decisions and actions the bot is performing, and what criteria the bot is checking. Activities are listed in chronological order, with the most recent activity first.
Accessing the bot log (:27)
You can access the bot log in two ways from the bot dashboard. From the bot homepage, select the Log tab to display the entire bot log.
You can also access the bot log from the dashboard tab.
Selecting a category automatically filters for that activity type.
Activity filter (:53)
The bot log enables you to filter by activity type.
You can choose to view one, all, or any combination of automations. You can also view only the bot’s errors to determine why the errors occurred and how to fix them.
You can also clear the entire bot log at any time.
Automation log (2:07)
You always have complete access and clarity to what your bots are doing. Select an automation to display its activity when it ran. The automation log details the time the automation ran, all the bot’s decisions, and the outcome for each decision recipe.
Select a decision to display the market conditions at the time the automation ran.
For example, the first decision checked to see if EEM’s price was above its 200-day SMA. When the automation ran at 11:30, EEM’s price ($54.03) was above the moving average ($48.61), so a green checkmark appears.
Testing an event automation (4:12)
You can test automations to observe how the log reflects opening and closing positions.
For example, this bot uses a button that liquidates every open position in the bot.
When the button is clicked, an event automation is triggered. That is immediately reflected in the bot’s log. The two open positions have been closed outside the normal 15-minute interval.
Selecting the action displays the activity that took place when the automation ran and the details of the closing trades.
Run an automation instantly (5:37)
You can run an automation instantly in the Automations tab. Select the lightning bolt icon.
The button enables you to create a new automation or run an automation from your library.
Once you run the automation, you can view the log and the automation’s activity.
The newly opened position is reflected in the Positions tab.
Bot errors (7:24)
The bot log is a great place to see why a bot is not running or what errors it continuously encounters. You can use the log to see why a bot is not behaving as you think it should and why positions aren’t being opened or closed, and make the necessary changes to the automation.
The bot log displays errors with a red exclamation point.
You can select the automation error to understand precisely why the bot failed to perform the requested actions.
The error message tells you exactly why the error happened and where it occurred in the automation.
Automation errors are also reflected in the positions statement.
The activity log in the bot dashboard also displays if any errors occurred in the bot. Selecting the error message takes you to the bot log, where only automation errors are displayed via the filter.
